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Shinasha, also known as Boro (Borna, Bworo) is a North Omotic language spoken in western Ethiopia by the Shinasha people. Its speakers live in scattered areas north of the Abay River: in the Dangur, Bullen, Dibate and Wenbera districts, which are parts of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region.

Notes

1. Borna at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
2. Borna at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
3. Ethiopia 2007 Census
4. Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. "Boro, a language of Ethiopia", Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

References

• Lamberti, Marcello (1993) Die Shinassha-Sprache – Materialien zum Boro. Heidelberg. Universitätsverlag C. Winter.

Further reading

• Franz Rottland (1990), "A sketch of Shinasha morphology", Omotic Language Studies, Richard Hayward (editor), pp. 185–209. London: SOAS.
• Idar Bergfjord (2013), Issues in Borna Phonology, MA thesis, University of Oslo

External links

• World Atlas of Language Structures information on Shinassha
• Website maintained by the language community, with published literature, including an online dictionary

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